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by codesnik 6y ago
The fact that vlookup with all its usability, pitfalls and speed is still the main way to relate data in excel basically proves my point.
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by codesnik 6y ago
But they're pain in the ass to use, modify, and really feel as an afterthought which barely used by anyone. Compare this to "Numbers": you just enter any text int row or column header and this text is immediately usable and v
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by codesnik 6y ago
Spreadsheets, as they incarnated in Excel are akin to running old style no-named-subroutines, only-two-chars-per-variable-name, goto-line-number BASIC but on modern hardware. Ideas that could potentially grow into something safe and powerfu
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by codesnik 6y ago
excel is a grandiose waste of human time, exactly because of that "well enough" feature set.
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by codesnik 6y ago
keep history just as a changelog to see when and what was changed? or something with versions you actively can revert to? I suppose one of the problems is that changing schema is usually interleaved with some sorts of data migrations and co
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by codesnik 6y ago
spreadsheets barely have distinction between strings and numbers. Units would be another level! I hope that at some point something like a strongly typed jupyter notebook tailored specifically for table inputs would arise and replace some c
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by codesnik 6y ago
It's mostly to work less surprising to the programmer, AFAIR. Probably the most complexity is from having to differentiate local variables and methods depending if the symbol had an assignment before in the scope.
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by codesnik 6y ago
bison should be compared to https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-ruby/blob/master/... probably?
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by codesnik 6y ago
> After you've had the final meal, you've got about 2h left. spooky
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by codesnik 6y ago
oh my, I was prescribed a course of doxycycline once, and those were gloomiest and angriest couple weeks of my life. I felt like I'm a sociopath, just didn't care about people emotionally. And that bitter taste all the time, like
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by codesnik 6y ago
um, I wonder, who works in Fed and who writes their policies?
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by codesnik 6y ago
I understand this simple rule, and I understand closures, of course, it's just using closure semantics for default arguments doesn't make any sense, aside from some optimization maybe, and pretty dangerous. Other approaches are po
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by codesnik 6y ago
module-level dict?... why...
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by codesnik 6y ago
But what if you want to match to value of some variable in the scope? I see no "^pinning" of variables or stuff like that. There's "dotted" syntax, but it works only for constants and fields, not local variables, ri
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by codesnik 6y ago
when bottom is actually reached that point of evaluation, does haskell provide any indication on where it came from? stacktrace or something?
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by codesnik 6y ago
i'm pretty sure boats (especially big ones) are one of the potential markets for starlink, so even if current receiver will lose a connection, there will be special receiver for boats eventually. Stabilizing phased array shouldn't
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by codesnik 6y ago
how do you set an initial orientation of the cursor? how does it know, where's "up" cursor direction?
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by codesnik 6y ago
Pascal is under-appreciated. TurboPascal was my first programming language/platform on PC (used 286 in 1994) and the only problem I had was lack of documentation on actual video and sound hardware, not with the language itself. I was s
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by codesnik 6y ago
no more mentions of Virgin Mary on twitter I suppose?
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by codesnik 6y ago
well, true, but people are still reporting very high amount of short positions.
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by codesnik 6y ago
diesel? I doubt you have jet-a seaplanes there. It's gasoline, (though, the nasty kind, with lead)
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by codesnik 6y ago
somewhat related: in Russia, mobile phones are illegal in prisons, but somehow ends up available to some inmates. Sizeable amount of scam calls from "banks" etc are coming from there. Problem isn't solved for many years, of c
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by codesnik 6y ago
I have no idea what marbles are made of, but if they are even remotely similar to actual marble and not, say, glass, I'm sure it'll react with acid in the wine.
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by codesnik 6y ago
from inside should be better for actually keeping air from leaking. I wonder why it isn't working 100% well
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by codesnik 6y ago
huh. It's printed. Is it common to have a personal printed phonebook? How does it work?
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by codesnik 6y ago
hm. do many people in silicon valley buy their apartment or house there these days? Is it even accessible?
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by codesnik 6y ago
meanwhile I've heard siberia is also famous for considering just a normal business a 300 km fishing trip in all-terrain vehicles via something barely resembling a road.
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by codesnik 6y ago
but it's really weird to look on those in hexdump
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by codesnik 6y ago
magnetic film!
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by codesnik 6y ago
catalysts are not consumed in the reaction, by definition

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